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# Minion
# This Repository Is No Longer Maintained

*NOTE: Minion is currently in a beta state, please report any issues in the issue tracker*
Minion has become an official module in Kohana 3.3.0 so work has been moved there.
If you need the older versions of minion, you can find tags for them in the new repository.

Minion is a framework for running tasks via the CLI. It was originally designed to be a database migrations system but it made more sense to refactor
that functionality into a [separate module](https://github.com/kohana-minion/tasks-migrations/).

The system is inspired by ruckusing, which had a nice system for defining tasks but lacked the desired flexibility for kohana integration.

**Please don't PM me with support / feature requests, instead create an issue in [the tracker](https://github.com/kohana-minion/core/issues).**

## Requirements

* [kohana-database](https://github.com/kohana/database) is required by the migration tasks

## Compatibility

**K3.0/develop** contains a K3.0 compatible version of Minion and **K3.1/develop** contains a K3.1 compatible version.

## Getting Started

First off, download and enable the module in your bootstrap

Then copy the bash script `minion` alongside your index.php (most likely the webroot).
If you'd rather the executable be in a different location to index.php then simply modify the bash script to point to index.php.

You can then run minion like so:

./minion {task}

To view a list of minion tasks, run minion without any parameters, or with the `--help` option

./minion
./minion --help

To view help for a specific minion task run

./minion {task} --help

For security reasons Minion will only run from the cli. Attempting to access it over http will cause
a `Kohana_Exception` to be thrown.

If you're unable to use the binary file for whatever reason then simply replace `./minion {task}` in the above
examples with

php index.php --uri=minion --task={task}

## Writing your own tasks

All minion tasks must be located in `classes/minion/task/`. They can be in any module, thus allowing you to
ship custom minion tasks with your own module / product.

Each task must extend the abstract class `Minion_Task` and implement `Minion_Task::execute()`.

See `Minion_Task` for more details.

## Documentation

Code should be commented well enough not to need documentation, and minion can extract a class' doccomment to use
as documentation on the cli.

## Testing

This module is unittested using the [unittest module](http://github.com/kohana/unittest).
You can use the `minion` group to only run minion tests.

i.e.

phpunit --group minion

Feel free to contribute tests(!), they can be found in the `tests/minion` directory. :)

## License

This is licensed under the [same license as Kohana](http://kohanaframework.org/license).

This project is not endorsed by the Kohana Framework project.

## FAQ

### Can't I just create my own controllers instead of creating "tasks"

Yes, controllers offer just as much control as tasks, however there are a number of advantages to tasks:

* They can only be run via command line or through code (see note about http)
* All the groundwork for interacting with the user on the command line is already in place, you
just need to take advantage of it
* It provides a uniform way to access and perform tasks on the command line, rather than creating an elaborate
collection of controllers while trying to restrict access to them. If you create a module that requires command
line interaction then you just ship a minion task with it and users will be able to start using it with minimal
setup & configuration

### Eeew why aren't you using ORM xyz?

In order to prevent conflicts across installations Minion aims to have as few dependencies as possible.

### This is awesome! How can I contribute?

Thanks for wanting to help out, just fork, commit, push, and send a pull request :)

### UR DOIN IT WRONG

Sorry you feel that way, it'd be useful if you could create an issue outlining what you think should be changed.
[https://github.com/kohana/minion](https://github.com/kohana/minion)
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